Re: [PATCH 0/3] mtd: rawnand: Get rid of the cmx270 driver

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 3:23 PM Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Wed, 13 May 2020 15:17:37 +0200:
> > On Wed, 13 May 2020 14:55:01 +0200 Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > >
> > > >> I hope someone still has a board to test that.
> > > No, unfortunately I don't have this board, nor do I know of anyone having
> > > one. It's the second time I see patches on cmx270, and the question to whether
> > > we shoud keep this board in kernel is still in my mind ... given that cm-x300 is
> > > fully supported and testable, and no one I know has a cm-x2700 ...
> >
> > What's the point of keeping support for a board no one has or no one
> > cares about? I know I don't have my word in this decision, but I would
> > strongly recommend getting rid of it, especially when I see such
> > crappy/unmaintained code lurking around in the drivers/ tree.
>
> I also agree on the fact that spending time on maintain unused boards
> is lost time. We have so many drivers to handle, maybe it's time to get
> rid of these "too" old drivers.

The cm-x255/cm-x270 came up in another discussion last year because
of its unusual PCI_HOST_ITE8152 PCI support that I'd like to kill off.

We did not see a strong reason to keep the board support at that time,
but nobody sent any patches. I think it would be reasonable to just
kill off MACH_ARMCORE, PCI_HOST_ITE8152 and
MTD_NAND_CM_X270 along with anything else that is no longer
used after those are gone, such as the pcmcia support.

       Arnd

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